CVE-2008-1036

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    CVE-2008-1036

    Published: 2 Jun 2008Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: The International Components for Unicode (ICU) library in Apple Mac OS X before 10.5.3, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and other operating systems omits some invalid character sequences during conversion of some character encodings, which might allow remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

    References: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//May/msg00001.html, http://secunia.com/advisories/30430, http://secunia.com/advisories/34290, http://secunia.com/advisories/34777, http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1762, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-747-1, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1697, http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//May/msg00001.html, http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-150A.html, http://securitytracker.com/id?1020139, http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0064, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0296.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29412, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29488, http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-150A.html, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42717, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10824

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High